Potential Titles: Ox

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Ox shall waltz with bee - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Lines to My Love"

The wearied ox at eve familiarly reclines - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XI--Sunset"

Toiled like yoked black oxen - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"

And the ox becomes delirious - C.S. Calverley "Lines on Hearing the Organ"

Stalls where now the ox is fed - John Castillo "The Country Love Feast"

The oxen pulling me toward dawn - Tina Chang "Birth"

Cut from the hides of Apollo's oxen - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

When birds are silent and oxen drowse - Rosa Gilbert "Song [The silent bird is hid in the boughs]"

But the birds aren't ready to be oxen again - Carlie Hoffman "Panorama After Foreclosure"

The yoke-freed oxen low - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

Ox carts to haul the precious cargo - Lu Yu "The Merchant's Joy" transl. by Burton Watson

Oxen and kine they drive abroad - "The Maiden at the Thing" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

The sweet knees of oxen have pressed a path - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

As the oxen go beneath the rod - Dora Sigerson Shorter "An Imperfect Revolution"

Sold the ox to pay taxes - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson

Riding home on the back of an ox - Sun Yun-feng "The Trail Up Wu Gorge" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung


End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

With ox-teams great in the fall - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter


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